Alberta’s information and privacy commissioner says she is worried — but not surprised — the province voted this week to pass legislation she says will reduce public access to government information.
“I am concerned,” commissioner Diane McLeod said in an interview.
“All of those things I think are going to impact the right of access significantly for Albertans.”
The government wrapped up the fall sitting of the legislature late Wednesday night, passing a bill from Service Alberta Minister Dale Nally on new rules surrounding freedom of information.
The bill creates new exemptions for what documents the public has a right to access.
They will not be allowed to see any document created by or for the premier, government ministers or the provincial Treasury Board, including correspondence like emails.
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When the bill was introduced last month, McLeod wrote to Nally outlining multiple concerns, but no amendments were made to Nally’s bill …